Maryam Samadieh; Majid Mollayousefi
Volume 17, Issue 4 , January 0, , Pages 1-24
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Aristotle is the first philosopher who specifically focuses on phronesis or practical wisdom in detail. He has dealt with it in three areas of essence, elements of phronetic act, and phronesis functions. For Aristotle, phronesis was a moral and intellectual virtue and a prerequisite for the prosperity ...
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Aristotle is the first philosopher who specifically focuses on phronesis or practical wisdom in detail. He has dealt with it in three areas of essence, elements of phronetic act, and phronesis functions. For Aristotle, phronesis was a moral and intellectual virtue and a prerequisite for the prosperity of every individual and community. In his elaboration of the ontological position of phronesis, Aristotle differentiates it from other intellectual virtues such as episteme, techne, intuitive intellect, and Sophia. He argues that these last three items have to do with theory, while phronesis is about praxis and practice. He also differentiates between phronesis and Techne. Although techne, like phronesis, is about practice, practice in techne is of poiesis and construction nature. Phronesis, on the other hand, is a comprehensive and applied type of knowledge that not only dictates the daily activities, but also utilizes knowledge as a guide and a calculator. Moreover, what is referred to as an action in phronesis encompasses a variety of elements like perceiving the goal, desire, rational deliberation and prohairesis or rational choice. Aristotle also believes that phronesis gives a valuable framework for leading man’s life.
seyyed ramzan aghili; lamileh alam alhoda; korosh fathi vajargah
Volume 18, Issue 2 , January 0, , Pages 83-102
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The meaning of virtue is explicitly discussed in Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics, but virtue development and the stages involved are not adequately dealt with. Therefore, this paper aims to identify the stages of virtue development and characteristics of each stage from the perspective of Aristotle by using ...
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The meaning of virtue is explicitly discussed in Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics, but virtue development and the stages involved are not adequately dealt with. Therefore, this paper aims to identify the stages of virtue development and characteristics of each stage from the perspective of Aristotle by using deductive qualitative content analysis method. To do this initial framework or the stages of the virtue development was extracted. In the next step, by analyzing the text of the book of Nicomachean ethics, the characteristics of each stage were extracted. The results indicate that in general, the stages of moral development are: The moral massive, moral incontinence, moral continence, and virtuosity. The findings show that at the stage of moral massive People are not necessarily evil, but moral issues do not matter to them and they are indifferent to moral issues.in the moral incontinence people do not have a complete moral knowledge, and this incomplete knowledge does not end in moral action. In the moral continence People have high moral knowledge and this knowledge comes to an end to moral action, but moral pleasure does not occur completely. Ultimately, people in the final stage end up their moral knowledge to moral action and acquire enough pleasure from their moral practice.